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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Thursday, February 26, 2009. 5 Things Wrong with Excel Pivot Tables. Ok, so Im pissed off at Pivot Tables. Dont get me wrong, I love Pivot Tables; I use them all the time to figure out what all the crappy data that the client gave me actually means.
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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Whither art thou Marakon. Two years, merger to bankruptcy? Ouch. Can anyone from Marakon weigh in and explain whats happening inside its "operating subsidiaries"?
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Friday, February 20, 2009. Consulting Vignettes. A realistic view of consulting. Why did I wake up upon landing at one of these airports this week?
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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Friday, February 20, 2009. Consulting Vignettes. A realistic view of consulting. Why did I wake up upon landing at one of these airports this week?
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Wednesday, February 18, 2009. How not to Chart Data. Disclaimer: When wrapping up a project my bitterness always increases. Ok, so when I see this report by Fed Economists , I just react.
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Signs of Crunch Time. Vision narrowing. [priorities: work, call wife, sleep, eat, in decreasing order] Project Manager irritability rising.
'Brian of Mergers & Inquisitions posted on this very topic earlier today. We’re scheduling a trip to the East Coast next week to speak at schools about recruiting for finance and consulting. While a bit late in the fulltime and summer cycle for many – we think the advice is still pertinent and particularly helpful if your job search has been a struggle thus far.
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Tuesday, February 3, 2009. Unintentional Irony: Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence is a brilliant theory, but poorly executed today in most of Corporate America.
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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Sunday, February 1, 2009. New Word: Drecession. Dresssion: Bigger than a recession, not quite a depression. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 11:24 AM.
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Wednesday, February 18, 2009. BearingPoint Goes Chapter 11. I was wrong about BearingPoints business Model ; turns out that you can bankrupt a services business.
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Coolness Meter & Client Interaction. So I was with some colleagues, on the way back from a “group outing” to the ladies room, when we all ran into one of our more senior-level clients in the hallway. The woman is a little scary and more than a little crazy, but I actually kind of like her.
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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, February 18, 2009. In Case You Need a Laugh. … and I’m guessing we all do… I would just like to report that moments ago, here at the client site, a rather odd thing transpired: My colleague, another dutiful consultant, was quietly working at her desk, When suddenly… And I am not making this up… The ceiling fell on her head.
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, February 16, 2009. Consulting Moment of Zen. Im in a meeting with my client. She says, "I need you to fly down to {insert name of random small city} tomorrow to get a handle on whats going on with the conversion.". I say, no problem, Ill grab an afternoon flight so we can lay out a plan in the morning. My client says, ".you actually like traveling, dont you?".
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, February 16, 2009. Consulting Moment of Zen. I cant resist. Im on a Continental Express Jet Flight (yes, the day after that accident). We are landing in a nasty crosswind. Just as the wheels are about to touch down a gust hits us, the wing dips slightly, we correct, get a little off center, touch down, straighten out, and taxi down the runway.when we pull up to the gate the Pilot comes on the PA and says, ".on your way off the plane tonight, please stick
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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, February 16, 2009. Just a consultant. So there I was, in my clients main lobby one morning because I had forgotten my ID badge. No big deal, just sign in and get a visitor badge for the day. I walk up, show my ID, and explain what happened. The security guard (from a 3d party company) looks me up and down, checks the computer, and says, ".hmm, I dont see you in here.
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Drills Gone Wild. Sent to us by an alert Consultant in Pittsburgh. "When I was working in NY at CLIENT SITE X, I was working next to an individual who nearly had her foot drilled into while sitting at her desk. Apparently they were doing construction on the floor below and the drill broke through the floor above— directly under her foot!
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, February 16, 2009. Totally Random Thought of the Day. The fenders on my 2009 Toyota Camry rental are filled with black painted Styrofoam to deaden the rattling and squeaking sounds that come from this piece of crap with tires. Posted by. Consulting SME. at. 9:34 PM. Labels: consulting , Demotivation , Randomness.
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, February 16, 2009. Dilbert is Not Funny. Posted by. Consulting SME. at. 9:58 PM. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Crazy Consultants. were type A (who, us?); we use words like synergy and leverage in sentences; we know that "Decks" arent made of wood; we drink wine, not beer; we wear boxers, not briefs; we actually like to travel; were platinum elite with every airline and hotel; we stay at the
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'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Monday, February 16, 2009. Dilbert must stop. Hitting too close to home. Posted by. Consulting SME. at. 10:04 PM. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Crazy Consultants. were type A (who, us?); we use words like synergy and leverage in sentences; we know that "Decks" arent made of wood; we drink wine, not beer; we wear boxers, not briefs; we actually like to travel; were platinum elite with every airline a
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